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2017-09-15T11:34:10-05:00

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Faith in Mind: Comparisons and Anxiety

Last updated on: September 15, 2017 at 11:34 am By Daniel Scharpenburg

Not seeing fine or coarse, How can there be any bias? Fine or coarse refers to the depth or shallowness of our practice. If we’re practicing to practice, then we aren’t worried about whether our meditation is deep or shallow. We aren’t sitting to attain Enlightenment. We are sitting because that is how Enlightenment manifests itself. That’s an important distinction. This applies in other ways. Good and bad are the most common labels that we use. We compare everything all... Read more

2017-09-12T11:34:53-05:00

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Faith in Mind: Unifying the Mind with Silence

Last updated on: September 12, 2017 at 11:34 am By Daniel Scharpenburg

Merely stagnating in duality, How can you recognize oneness? If you fail to penetrate oneness, Both places lose their function. When we make distinctions between this and that our minds enter duality. Even striving for Enlightenment is, in itself, something that can put us in a position of thinking about subject and object. We tend to think that the person who seeks Enlightenment is separate from the goal. In seeking to become like the Buddha, we often separate ourselves from... Read more

2017-09-08T08:33:05-05:00

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Faith in Mind: Beginning the Practice

Last updated on: September 8, 2017 at 8:33 am By Daniel Scharpenburg

The Supreme Way is not difficult If only you do not pick and choose. Neither love nor hate, And you will clearly understand. Be off by a hair, And you are as far from it as heaven from earth. This is how Sengcan’s poem “Faith in Mind” begins. It’s about cultivating equanimity and practicing without a goal in mind. The Supreme Way at the beginning refers to Enlightenment. The wisdom of the Buddha, the wisdom of Emptiness seems really hard... Read more

2018-04-27T11:35:22-05:00

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Faith in Mind: Introduction

Last updated on: April 27, 2018 at 11:35 am By Daniel Scharpenburg

Faith In Mind is a long poem about Enlightenment. It was written by the third Chan Patriarch, Sengcan. We use the word ‘faith’, but of course it’s not about faith in some external thing. It’s about faith in our own minds, our inherent Buddha Nature. Most of the large Chan texts were written after the time of the great sixth patriarch. ‘Faith in Mind’ is one of the rare exceptions. We are going to be exploring this poem over the... Read more

2017-08-24T09:54:53-05:00

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Stress

Last updated on: August 24, 2017 at 9:54 am By Daniel Scharpenburg

We often think of stress as something that happens to us, something out there that is disturbing our peace of mind. But is this accurate? I’m getting ready to move and it’s stressful, as moving always is. It seems like there’s an overwhelming mountain of things that need to get done and I’m worrying about all that could go wrong. I’m doing this to myself. It’s not really about what’s happening. It’s about my reaction to it. What I have... Read more

2017-08-22T14:44:48-05:00

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Great American Eclipse: Expectations and Wonder

Last updated on: August 22, 2017 at 2:44 pm By Daniel Scharpenburg

“Listen to the love letters sent by the wind and the rain; the snow and the moon.” –Ikkyu Kansas City. Just on the edge of totality for the Great American Eclipse of 2017. I still remember people going crazy over a partial solar eclipse in the area when I was a kid. There was so much media around that event back then, and that was only partial. This was to be a full eclipse, not experienced here for over 100... Read more

2018-04-27T11:35:34-05:00

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Close Knit Sanghas?

Last updated on: April 27, 2018 at 11:35 am By Daniel Scharpenburg

Having a spiritual community is really important. And I wonder if we’re lacking that area in most Buddhist communities. Read more

2017-08-03T11:28:25-05:00

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Waking Up

Last updated on: August 3, 2017 at 11:28 am By Daniel Scharpenburg

Awakening and freedom. That’s what the path is all about. Enlightenment really just means awareness, seeing things as they really are. Reality unfiltered. The world as it is instead of as we think it is. We come to enlightenment by freeing ourselves of the three poisons; greed, hatred, and delusion. We free ourselves by transforming these poisons. We transform them to virtue, meditation, and wisdom. The truth is that enlightenment is simply not creating delusions. When we’re in delusion we... Read more

2017-08-03T11:28:46-05:00

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Lojong Point 7: Guidelines

Last updated on: August 3, 2017 at 11:28 am By Daniel Scharpenburg

This point has to do with how we go further in our day to day life. This is connected to an understanding of how we can have better behavior in our relationships and in our lives in general. 39. All Activities Should Be Done With One Intention The one intention is to cultivate bodhicitta, to have a sense of gentleness and kindness toward others. This is what the intention to walk the bodhisattva path is really all about. We can... Read more

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2017-08-31T15:20:43-05:00

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Lojong Point 6: Disciplines

Last updated on: August 31, 2017 at 3:20 pm By Daniel Scharpenburg

This group of slogans is connected with the perfection of wisdom, prajnaparamita. They are connected with sharpening our awareness to help us work with ourselves. Wisdom cuts through ignorance. We are cultivating a sense of awareness and mindfulness that will develop us on the bodhisattva path. It’s our sense of wisdom that allows us to carry these slogans through our lives. As we go forward with the slogans, you’ll notice they are increasingly more straightforward. The first 22 provided a... Read more

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